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The Age of Imperialism
Chapter 14 & 15
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History
10th Grade
12/19/2007

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King Leopold of Belgium hired Henry Stanley to find?
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David Livingston
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What did the territory that Leopold took over come to be called?
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Congo
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The only 2 free states remaining in Africa
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Liberia and Ethopia
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Who used civil obedience in India to try to force the British to give up its control?
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Gandhi
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Rudyards Kipplin's poem about the moral responsibility that Europeans had to civilize primitive peoples
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While mans Burden
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Afrikaners(Boers) were decendents of what European nation?
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Netherlands
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The Sepoy Mutiny was spurred on by what?
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Bullet w/ cow and pig meat
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Cite the stipulations of the Treaty of Nanjing

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Ports open/ Lower taxes on British goods
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What did Hong Xiuquan lead/ What did he think he was?
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Tai Ping Rebellion/ Younger brother of Jesus
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"Destroy the foreigners" was the slogan of?
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The Boxers
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Served as the 1st president of China

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Yuan Shigai
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After the Meiji gov. seized the ______ lands they governed prefectures instead
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Daimyos
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How did Britian go about balancing trade w/ China

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Trading Opium
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What 2 groups were appeased by the Tai Ping Rebellion?
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Peasants and Women
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Who founded the Nationalist(Guomindang) party?
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Sun Yat-Sen
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Who was the last emperor of China?
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PuYi
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British subjects got to live under their own laws while in china, this is called?
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Extraterritoriality
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100 Day Reform
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Emperor issues edicts calling for major political administrative and educational reforms. These helped modernize governments beauracracy by following western models.
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